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title: "Why measuring perception accelerates learning"
date: 2026-11-10T09:00:00-05:00
categories: ["opinion"]
url: https://tacticsjournal.com/2026/11/10/why-measuring-perception-accelerates-learning/
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# Why measuring perception accelerates learning

[Author of The Weasel Way and presenter of United Soccer Coaches' Reading the Game series Tony Nicalo](https://youtu.be/fEiHXJbBgds?si=BG8W3MIUtH_ymL6I):

> In perceptual training, measurement does more than become something that is managed. It accelerates learning.
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> When a player knows you'll count their scanning, they scan more. Measurement creates attention, and what players attend to is what gets stored.
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> The instrument becomes part of the training.

I wish coaches taught me how to scan when I was a kid.

> It's exactly how we implemented it with a World Cup-winning coach and his team.
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> For them, we also built a library of pause-and-quiz videos. We measure the speed and accuracy of the players' responses to rate their reading ability.
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> But this is what they measure on the pitch, in training and matches.

This would be a great app idea local to a club, if it doesn’t exist already.

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